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Event Calendar 2019

• 7 January 2019, 12:15-13:00

  DIKU Bits: Bioinformatics: Algorithms that make it possible to analyse billions of DNA sequences

  

  At this DIKU Bits lecture Anders Krogh, Professor at Department of Biology & Department of Computer Science, will discuss algorithms that make it possible to analyse billions of DNA sequences. » Read more

• 30 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

  Julio Cesar dos Reis: Advancements and Challenges in Cross-Lingual Ontology Alignment

  
  ​Julio Cesar dos Reis will be visiting DIKU and give a talk during his stay. His talk will be followed by a talk by Flávia Santoro on Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?​​​
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• 30 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

  Flávia Santoro: Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

  

  On 30 January Flávia Santoro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will present her talk Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next? » Read more

• 31 January 2019, 10:00-11:00

  Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: Open Science, Open Data – Challenges in Data Sharing across Scientific Domains

  

  ​Claudia Bauzer Medeiros will be visiting DIKU and give a talk on Open Science, Open Data – Challenges in Data Sharing across Scientific Domains during her stay​. » Read more

• 4 February 2019, 12:15-13:00

  DIKU Bits: Registering the big picture in data science

  

  At this DIKU Bits lecture Jon Sporring will demonstrate how image analysis is used for statistical models of ultrastructures in nerve cells and give examples of how we have improved existing and developed new algorithms for image analysis. » Read more

• 8 February 2019, 01:30-04:30

  Open House MSc studies at SCIENCE at University of Copenhagen

  

  Are you considering an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen? Would you like to know more about the programme? » Read more

• 22 February 2019, 09:00-10:00

  MSc Thesis Defence: Jens Egholm Pedersen

  

  On 22 February Jens Egholm Pedersen will defend his thesis on Modelling Neural Learning Systems in Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks. » Read more

• 22 February 2019, 13:00

  PhD defence by Aske Mottelson

  

  On 22 February, Aske Mottelson will be defending his PhD thesis "Computer-Cognition Interfaces: Sensing and Influencing Mental Processes with Computer Interaction". » Read more

• 22 February 2019, 13:05-14:00

  COPLAS talk: Ahmad Al-Sibahi

  

  COPLAS talk on Probabilistic Programming - Practical Experiences and Challenges in Voucher Processing by Ahmad Al-Sibahi. » Read more

• 6 March 2019, 15:30-18:30

  What are tomorrow's security threats from cyberspace - and how do researchers and companies cope?

  

  Join us for an interesting seminar in DIKU Business Club featuring IT Security. The talk is open to all interested people.

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• 14 March 2019, 14:15-15:00

  Talk by Martin Atzmueller

  

  On 14 March 2019, Martin Atzmueller, Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, will give a talk at DIKU entitled "Onto Model-Based Exceptional Pattern Mining on Attributed Interaction Networks". » Read more

• 15 March 2019, 10:30-12:00

  MSc Thesis Defence: Raluca Alexandra Fetic

  

  On 15 March Raluca Alexandra Fetic will defend her thesis on Efficient neural encoding of large texts for stance detection. » Read more

• 15 March 2019, 12:15

  PhD defence Christopher Ryther

  

  On 15 March, Christopher Ryther will defend his PhD thesis "Complex Temporal Networks: Metrics and embeddings for problems in real world complex networks" » Read more

• 18 March 2019, 10:00-10:45

  Talk by Huiling Le

  

  On 18 March Huiling Le, University of Nottingham, will present the talk "Stein's method  for probability measures on manifolds" » Read more

• 18 March 2019, 10:45-11:30

  Talk by Xavier Pennec

  

  On 18 March Xavier Pennec, INRIA and University Cote d'Azur (UCA), will present the talk "Geometric Statistics beyond the Riemannian structure and beyond the mean" » Read more

• 18 March 2019, 12:15-13:00

  DIKU Bits: Motion matching at DADIU: A new paradigm in game animation

  

  At this DIKU Bits talk Morten Pol Engell-Nørregård, Computer Graphics Specialist at the Visual Computing Lab, will present you to the concept of motion matching, which is a new method of doing animation, resulting in better and more responsive animations in computer games. » Read more

• 18 March 2019, 13:15

  PhD defence Line Kühnel

  

  On 18 March, Line Kühnel will be defending her PhD thesis "Stochastic Modelling on Manifolds". » Read more

• 19 March 2019, 13:15

  PhD defence Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen

  

  On 19 March, Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen will be defending his PhD thesis "Segmentation of Brains and Rocks from Tomographic Reconstructions”. » Read more

• 25 March 2019, 13:00

  MSc Thesis Defence: Pernille Emma Hartung Hansen

  

  On 25 March Pernille Emma Hartung Hansen will defend her MSc Thesis "Methods in Geometric Statistics" » Read more

• 26 March 2019, 13:00-17:30

  Defence of Doctoral Dissertation: Jean-Yves Moyen

  

  Jean-Yves Moyens will defend his Doctorial Dissertation entitled: Implicit Complexity in Theory and Practice. » Read more

• 28 March 2019, 11:05-12:00

  COPLAS Talk: Prem Devanbu

  

  COPENHAGEN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SEMINAR (COPLAS) TALK:
  Naturalness of Software: Science and Applications, by Professor Prem Devanbu, University of California at Davis. » Read more

• 28 March 2019, 14:00-17:00

  Double TechTalk on probabilistic programming and empirical software engineering

  

  Join us for a special event - the chance for a double TechTalk and networking hosted by DIKU and DIKU Business Club, featuring prominent speakers: Arun Kamar, Developer at Facebook on HackPPL and Prem Devanbu, Professor at UC Davis. » Read more

• 1 April 2019, 13:00

  MSc Thesis Defence: Artem Chupryn

  

  On 1 April Artem Chuprynwill defend hisMSc Thesis "Convolution operator on Riemannian 2-manifold using parallel transport" » Read more

• 3 April 2019, 15:30-18:30

  Data ethics in AI research and in society - what's next?

  

  We discuss data ethics - applied to artificial intelligence in research and society. Meet researchers from University of Copenhagen: Peter Sandøe, Sune Holm and Thomas Hildebrandt who all work with the data ethical aspects of research in AI. Meet PhD and CEO in /Kl.7 Mikkel Holm Sørensen, who is a member of the governmental Board of Experts on dataethics. Meet DPOs Kristina Carole Cryne and Janise Wibroe Fabricius from Danske Bank » Read more

• 4 April 2019, 12:30-14:00

  Master thesis defense by Andreas Borgstad and Christoffer Thrysøe

  

  On 4 April Andreas Borgstad and Christoffer Thrysøe will defend their master thesis Detecting Roads in Remote Sensing Data Using Deep Learning Method. » Read more

• 5 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

  COPLAS and DLT seminar talk: Marlowe - Financial Contracts on Blockchain

  

  On Friday 5 April Simon Thompson, Professor of Logic and Computation at University of Kent, will introduce Marlowe and describe its semantics, implementation and tooling as well as give examples, including some from the ACTUS financial standard. » Read more

• 26 April 2019, 13:05-14:00

  COPLAS Talk: Selective Applicative Functors

  

  Selective Applicative Functors, a COPLAS Talk by Simon Marlow, Facebook, London, UK » Read more

• 26 April 2019, 13:15

  PhD defence Silas Nyboe Ørting

  

  On Friday 26 April, Silas Nyboe Ørting will defend his PhD thesis entitled: 'Assessing emphysema in CT scans of the lungs using machine learning, crowdsourcing and visual similarity'. » Read more

• 29 April 2019, 12:15-13:00

  DIKU Bits: Transfer learning to estimate influenza prevalence

  

  On 29 April Ingemar Cox, professor in the Machine Learning section, will present his talk Transfer learning to estimate influenza prevalence. » Read more

• 9 May 2019, 16:00-18:00

  Richard Stallman coming to DIKU: Computing, freedom, and privacy

  

  'Computing, freedom, and privacy' is the title of Richard Stallman's lecture at University of Copenhagen hosted by DIKU and DIKU Alumni. This lecture is one of three in Copenhagen, five in Denmark altogether, held by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation at Danish universities. » Read more

• 13 May 2019, 12:15-13:00

  DIKU Bits: Augmented Fabrication for End-Users

  

  On 13 May 2019 Daniel Ashbrook will present his talk Augmented Fabrication for End-Users as part of the DIKU Bits seminar series. » Read more

• 14 May 2019, 09:00-10:00

  MATH-DIKU Lecture: Arithmetic complexity theory: determinants, permanents and the VP vs. VNP problem

  

  On 14 May, Avi Wigderson, professor at the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, will give a joint MATH-DIKU lecture. » Read more

• 23 May 2019, 15:00-19:00

  IT Career Fair 2019

  

  On 23 May 2019 DIKU Business Club once more opents the doors to students and companies for the annual IT Career Fair. It's a half day's meet and greet and dialogues about job opportunities, career prospects and other collaboration possibilities.  » Read more

• 4 June 2019, 10:00

  Talk by Troels Damgaard

  

  On 4 June Troels Damgaard will present the talk Software Architecture in the Wild Abstract. » Read more

• 4 June 2019, 13:15-14:15

  Talk by Amit Chopra

  

  On Tuesday 4 June Amit Chopra will present the talk Norms and Protocols: Abstractions for Engineering Decentralized Sociotechnical Systems . » Read more

• 6 June 2019, 13:15

  PhD defence: Paul Strohmeier

  

  On 6 June, Paul Strohmeier will defend his PhD thesis entitled Shaping Material Experiences: Designing Vibrotactile Feedback for Active Perception. » Read more

• 7 June 2019, 13:00-17:30

  Defence of Doctoral Dissertation: Christina Lioma

  

  Christina Lioma will defend her Doctoral Dissertation entitled Dependencies: Formalising Semantic Catenae for Information Retrieval

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• 17 June 2019, 08:00-17:00

  Copenhagen FinTech Week: FinTech Symposium

  

  University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Fintech host this AI and Blockchain Symposium featuring prominent experts, including a Turing award winner. » Read more

• 8 October 2019, 16:00-19:00

  Women in Tech – Ada Lovelace Day 2019

  

  Come and celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2019 with DIKU and 3Shape on 8 October 2019. » Read more